GCC 4.9 Will Make Compilers More Exciting In 2014

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Submission + - GCC 4.9 Will Make Compilers More Exciting In 2014 (phoronix.com) 1

Submitted by noahfecks on Saturday October 26, 2013 @02:37PM

noahfecks writes: It seems that the GCC developers finally took actions to improve after CLANG is stepping ahead. Among the highlights to look forward to right now with GCC 4.9 include:
The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer has been ported to GCC.

ADA and Fortran have seen upgrades.

Improved C++14 support.

- RX100, RX200, and RX600 processor support by GCC.

Intel Silvermont hardware support.

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